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In Reply to: RE: Help troubleshooting old cheap turntable :-P posted by KanedaK on February 13, 2017 at 16:26:55
" Where does that distortion come from? The stylus? The cartridge? The settings?... "
The answer is, yes. Possibly any of them, all of them or any permutation thereof.
You say that you are new to vinyl. What records are you playing? If pre-owned then you can't guarantee that they were not damaged previously and they are therefore another candidate for the distortion.
You should not be aware of any distortion. If it were a significantly audible factor in vinyl replay then people would not have stuck with it for 70 years.
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I'm using any old vinyl I have at hands of course (ABBA, anyone?)
The distortion I hear does'nt seem to happen on transients - those are quite clean, and there's even a very decent impact in the midbass. It sounds more like a pig being slaughtered on massed powerful midrange frequencies - hysterical ABBA again.
But both channels play the same, there's some depth, good impact on drums, if there wouldn't be that distortion I would consider the sound to be very decent and listenable - I suspect my Korn&Macway preamp to have an excellent phono stage!
What you say does seem to me to suggest that the disc may have been mistreated in the past - most likely played with a damaged stylus.
Try some other discs, preferably unplayed previously, but only after replacing the stylus ( or even the entire cartridge) that you have. I would never take the condition of a stylus found on a flea market turntable for granted. You will be unable to check it unless you have a powerful microscope with a graticule for measurement and a lot of experience in doing this. So, safety first or you may end up damaging any other discs.
Korn & Macway seems to have been a brand only available to the Francophone market, really not known this side of the channel. However do make sure that you haven't plugged this turntable into a phono input with its sensitivity set for a moving coil cartridge. The Technics moving magnet one may well then overload this input and this could also be a cause of the distortion.
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